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New Zealand.
ANALYSIS.
Title.
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1. Short Title.
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2. Authority to charge Customs clearance fee on!
postal packets containing dutiable goods. I
3. Authority to lay pneumatic tubes under
streets.
4. Section 83 of principal Act amended.
5. Extension of definition of postal packet fOf !
certain purposes.
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6. Offence to personate officer of Department.
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7. Penalty for offences by Telegraph officers.
8. Protection of submarine cables.
9. Extension of powers as to regulation of
wireless·telegraphy.
10. Section 8 of Post and Telegraph Amendment
Act, 1913, amended.
11. Altering constitution of Promotion Board.
12. Correction of clerical errOf.
13. General power to make rbgulations for purposes of principal Act.
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Title.
Short Title.
Authority to charge
Customs clearance
fee on postal packets
containing dutiable
goods.
Authority to lay
pneumatic tubes
under streets.
AN ACT to amend the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908.
[16th October, 1922.
BE IT EN ACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand
in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as
follows :1. This Act may be cited as the Post and rrelegraph Amendment
Act, 1922, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the
Post and rllelegraph Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal
Act).
2. (1.) There may be charged in respect of postal packets
arriving in New Zealand from parts beyond the seas and containing
any goods liable to Customs duty a special fee (herein referred
to as a Customs clearance fee) of such amount as may from time to
time be prescribed, not exceeding sixpence in respect of any such
postal packet.
(2.) The Postmaster - General may, III his discretion, retain
possession of any postal packet subject to a clearance fee under
this section until snch fee has been paid.
(3.) All moneys received by the Postmaster-General as Customs
clearance fees shall be deemed to be postal revenue, and shall be paid
accordingly into the Post Office Account.
S. For the purpose of laying any pnenmatic tubes that may
be required for the carriage of postal matter or otherwise for the
convenience of the Post and rrelegraph Department, and for the
maintenance or removal of any snch pneumatic tubes, the Minister
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of Public Works shall have the same powers as he has under section
one hundred and twenty-six of the principal Act in respect of the
construction Rnd maintenance of electric lines.
4. Section eighty-three of the principal Act is hereby amended Section 83 of
by omitting from paragraph (d) the words" or pillar box," and prinoipalAot
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' '11 ar box or te1ep h one-cab"met. '
a.mended.
su bstltutmg
t h e word
s "pI
5. For the purposes of sections eighty-seven, ninety-one, ninety- Extension of
two , and . ninety-nine of the principal Act the. expression "postal definition
of pos~l
packet for certaIn
packet" mcludes a telegram, whether transmItted by post or by purposes.
electric line, or otherwise howsoever.
6. Every person is liable on indictment to imprisonment for Offence to personate
one year or to a fine of one hundred pounds, or to both such ~fIioertof t
imprisonment and fine, who personates or falsely represents himself epar men.
to be an officer of the Post and Telegraph Department.
7. Every officer or other person employed in or about the Penalty for offences
working of any telegraph who offends against or wilfully neglects bfu Telegraph
or omits to comply with any of the provisions of Division II of the 0 cers.
principal Act, in respect of which no penalty is provided elsewhere
than in this section, is liable to a fine of one hundred pounds.
8. Section one hundred and seventy-six of the principal Act is ProtectIOn of
hereby amendedsubma.rine ca.bles.
(a.) By inserting, after the words" endanger human life, or"
in subsection one, the words "injuriously affects or is
likely injuriously to affect"; and
(b.) By inserting, after the words "management of the Minister"
in the same subsection, the words "or forming part of
any submarine telegraph-cable system operating in New
Zealand."
9. The authority conferred on the Governor-General in Council Extension of powers
by subsection three of section three of the Post and 1'elegraph :r~~e~~g:-~~~:Ph;.
Amendment Act, 1911, to make regulations with respect to licenses
for the installation and working of apparatus for wireless telegraphy
shall be deemed to include power to make regulations with respect
to any or all of the matters following, namely:(a.) '1'he revocation or suspension of any such license by the
Minister of Telegraphs, and the grounds of such revocation or suspension:
(b.) '1'he dismantling or confiscation of any such apparatus
by or by direction of the Minister, and the grounds 011
which the powers of dismantling or confiscation may be
exercised:
(c.) '1'he making by licensees or applicants for licenses of declarations of secrecy designed to prevent the unauthorized
divulgence of wireless communications that may be
intercepted in the course of the exercise of the privileges
conferred by the license:
(d.) The imposition of penalties for any breach of the regulations
or of the conditions of a license, or of any declaration of
secrecy:
(e.) The prohibitioll or regulation of the use of apparatus which
may generate electric waves likely to interfere with the
conduct of public wireless communications.
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Section 8 of
Post and Telegraph
Amendment Act,
1913, amended.
10. Section eight of the Post and Telegraph Amendment Act,
1913, is hereby amended by repealing paragraph Ca) of subsection
two, and substituting the following paragraph :"(a.) Wilfully makes any false statement when using a telephone
under the control or management of the Minister with
intent that some other person should act on such false
statement to his substantial detriment."
11. Section thirteen of the Post and Telegraph Department
Act, 1918, is hereby amended by omitting from subsection two the
words" the Chief Inspector, the Superintendent of Staff," and substituting the words" the First and Second Assistant Secretaries."
12. Section twenty-three of the Post and Telegraph Amendment
Act, 1919 (amending section one hundred and forty-one of the
principal Act), is hereby amended as from the passing of the firstmentioned Act by ,substItuting the words "or duplicate" for the
words" in duplicate" in paragraph (b) thereof.
13. In addition to the purposes specified therein the GovernorGeneral may from time to time, by Order in Council, make regulations
generally for the purpose of giving full effect to the provisions of the
principal Act.
Altering
constitution of
Promotion Board.
Correction cf
clerica I ~rror.
General power to
make regulations
for purposes of
principal Act.
Post and Telegraph Amendment.
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